Coloradan Connor Jones set to tee it up in next week’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship on PGA Tour — his reward for winning the Elite Amateur Series
By Gary Baines – 11/9/2024
Connor Jones of Westminster has competed in plenty of notable golf tournaments over his career, but none as big as the one in which he’ll tee it up next week.
The 2022 CGA Player of the Year and former Colorado State University golfer is set to make his PGA Tour debut as he’s in the field for the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, set to start on Thursday.
Jones earned a spot in the event by winning the season-long Elite Amateur Series Cup title in 2024. Back in his final season as an amateur, he recorded three top-5 finishes in the seven Elite Amateur Series events. Jones placed fourth in both the Pacific Coast Amateur and the Southern Amateur, and was fifth in the Sunnehanna Amateur. Other top-40 showings were 27th in the Trans-Miss Amateur and 36th in the Northeast Amateur. In 2022, Connor finished runner-up — in a playoff — at the Trans-Miss at Denver Country Club.
By winning the 2024 Elite Amateur Cup, Jones landed a berth in a PGA Tour event — specifically the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Jones, who swept the CGA Match Play and Amateur titles in 2022, turned pro after this year’s U.S. Amateur, competing in PGA Tour Q-school this fall. But he fell short — by a single stroke — of advancing from stage 1 to stage 2 of that process — despite a final-round 65 in his first-stage tournament.
For the full field from the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, CLICK HERE. Among the other players with strong Colorado ties who will be competing are Denver native Mark Hubbard, Colorado resident Martin Laird and former Air Force Academy golfer Tom Whitney.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com